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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
I have to hand you the reward for best oxymoron (Honest Pirate) of the year. Who is this Honest Pirate that you speak of? Would you have us laud Robin Book, new thief of Sherwood Forest?
Back in 2004, the MPAA commissioned a survey of movie piracy:
http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/leksummarympa.pdf
If I chop a tree down in the forest, and the landowner does not hear me do it, is this stealing or not? The specious argument reads as follows: If I had to pay for it, I would not have stolen it. Therefore, I am not costing the owner anything!
Look, we still live in a civilized nation, and without recompensing each other, we all suffer. If a pirate chooses to be honest, he should do a good deed, equal in value to his bad deed. Buy a print copy (or substitute title) from the publisher. |
Look at it this way, The forest that someone took a tree from is owned by the local baron, The serfs pay their taxes to the baron but still aren't allowed to go collect any firewood, I'm not even talking about chopping down trees I mean fallen branches. The serfs can't keep warm or cook food anymore so they sneak into the forest and cut down a few trees.
Fallen branches in this case would be both fair use and the public domain in the forest of copyright. People are pushed too hard and finally they say screw it, if the local baron hadn't been so interested in control as to make the people suffer those big trees might still be there but the situation he created cost him a few big trees, they made enough firewood to last the village all winter.
The publishers aren't doing any good deeds I'm including movie and music publishers not only books they've not held onto their end of the copyright bargain. When are they going to give us something of the same value as their bad deeds?